Art and Human Rights: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Contemporary Issues

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Art and Human Rights

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Contemporary Issues

Edited by

Fiana Gantheret

Nolwenn Guibert

, and

Sofia Stolk

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This timely book builds bridges between the notions of art and aesthetics, human rights, universality, and dignity. It explores a world in which art and justice enter a discussion to answer questions such as: can art translate the human experience? How does humanity link individuality and community building? How do human beings define and look for their identity? The fields of human rights and art are brought together in order to open the discussion and contribute to the promotion and protection of human rights.

Keywords:: Art; Human Rights; Cultural Rights; Freedom of expression; Multidisciplinary; Conflict; Transitional Justice; Cultural Heritage

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Front Matter
Introduction
Part I: Peace: The Right to Art
- Section 1.1 Right to Culture: Contemporary Issues
- Chapter 1: Legal framework: Is there a right to art?
- Chapter 2: The human rights of artists: What did the pandemic teach us?
- Section 1.2 Right to artistic expression
- Chapter 3: Dancing in dialogue: The notion of dance in politically fragile contexts
- Chapter 4: Progressive autonomy of artistic freedom in international law: The contribution of the UN in promoting new economic, social, and cultural rights-based approaches
- Section 1.3 Art and social justice
- Chapter 5: Freedom and the archive
Part II: Conflict(s)
- Section 2.1 Representation of conflict through art
- Chapter 6: Seeing and unseeing war in Afghanistan: War, trauma and contestation of the human rights frame
- Chapter 7: The forensification of propaganda in epic poetry and Serb leadership cases at the ICTY
- Section 2.2 Art as a catalyst for change in conflict
- Chapter 8: War on war! Artful weapons in times of war and conflict
- Chapter 9: Cultural diplomacy: The theory and the practice of a bridging concept
- Section 2.3 Art: A target of conflict
- Chapter 10: Preserving and protecting cultural property, art, and antiquities during conflict: Recent experiences in Syria, Iraq, and Libya
Part III: Post-conflict approaches
- Section 3.1 Art in non-judiciary transitional justice mechanisms
- Chapter 11: Art, truth, reconciliation and resistance: Reaching out in Sierra Leone and Canada
- Chapter 12: Take me to court: Museum-making and transitional justice in Colombia
- Section 3.2 International criminal justice and art
- Chapter 13: Artistic strategies by and about the International Criminal Court
- Chapter 14: Reparations for cultural heritage destruction at the ICC and the limits of human rights
- Section 3.3 Restitution of cultural property
- Chapter 15: Restitution of WWII cultural property: Philosophical and legal approach
- Chapter 16: The return of the cultural objects displaced during the colonial era: An overview of solutions, challenges and misgivings from the perspective of international law
- Conclusion: Universality, dignity, and the five great elements
Back Matter
- Index

Monograph Book

Published:: 18 May 2023

Print ISBN:: 9781802208146

eISBN:: 9781802208153

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802208153

Pages:: 388

Collection:: Law 2023

Copyright:: Copyright Edward Elgar Publishing 2023

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Subjects
- Law - Academic
- Politics and Public Policy
  - Human Rights

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